Photos: Jefferson Avenue, a place of grief, unity and healing
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The area around Tops on Jefferson Avenue continues to be a place of unity and healing for a neighborhood and a city devastated by the mass shooting on May 14.
Sam DiVincenzo and his wife Jackie visit the area. DiVincenzo, of Lancaster, works for this Spectrum Health and Human Services and this is his area.Â
The community continues to grieve outside Tops, Friday, May 20, 2022.Â
The Muslim community holds a public prayer time across the street from the Tops on Jefferson Avenue.
A boy watches as his father and other Muslim men and women pray for the Cold Spring community.
Faizan Haq is one of many speakers as the Muslim community gathers.
The Muslim community came out to speak against racism to pray and unite with the Cold Spring community on Jefferson Avenue, Friday, May 20, 2022.Â
The Muslim community marches down the street locking arms with members of the community chanting, "We are with you, we stand with you."
The Muslim community stops in front of one of the memorials and shout "No hate, love."Â
There is a memorial wall on the side of Landon Street side of the building in Jefferson Utica Plaza where large photos of the victims are displayed and chalk is available to write, thoughts feelings and well wishes, Friday, May 20, 2022. Children write on the memorial wall.
The Muslim community's last stop is in front of the wall on the Landon Street side of the building in the Jefferson Utica Plaza where the large photos of each of the victims is displayed with chalk for people to write on the wall.
Jalil Brinson and her grandmother Mona Brinson write on the memorial wall.Â
There is a memorial wall on the side of Landon Street side of the building in Jefferson Utica Plaza where large photos of the victims are displayed and chalk is available to write, thoughts, feelings and well wishes.
In the night hours when most have gone home, others stop by to see the glow of the memorials lit by candles. Clay and Dawn Neasman light a candle for one of the memorials.
Jenny Scott, right, hugs her aunt Trina Michell, center, who has come to the scene near tops for the first time and weeps in front of one of the memorials.
A woman stands in the rain at a memorial at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Landon Street.
A woman puts down a flower at the name of each victim that was killed as the community continues to grieve outside Tops, Friday, May 20, 2022.Â
Donna Bryant and her granddaughter Jacionna Jackson, 3, write on the memorial wall.Â
Jacionna Jackson, 3, wants to write on the memorial wall.Â
In the night hours when most have gone home, the memorials glow by the light of the candles, Friday, May 20, 2022.
Dawn and Clay Neasman light a candle for one of the memorials.Â
The messages written on the memorial wall are often uplifting.
One woman draws hearts by every photo on the memorial wall.
Rhyan Love, 5, top, and Jacionna Jackson, 3, write on the memorial wall.Â
Jenny Scott, left, and Sherri Mobley light some candles that have gone out on one of the large memorials. Pearly Young, one of the victims of the shooting, was her daughter's great aunt.
Spontaneous prayer breaks out amongst strangers.
Candles illuminate the memorials.Â
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